extortioner
Example Sentences
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The Indians and the poor appealed to the church, and Mexico's archbishop put the extortioner under a ban of excommunication.
From Time Magazine Archive
In an "emergency" broadcast, Wagner charged that "one of the most important men in the U.S." had attempted to spring Joey Fay, a notorious labor extortioner, from Sing Sing Prison.
From Time Magazine Archive
How, then, did David Arden, who hated a swindle, answer the old extortioner, who asked him, “Do you like my offer?”
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
No! we find his actions narrowed down to the sordidness of the miser, the avariciousness of the extortioner.
From The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Abrams, Alex St. Clair
You dare treat Henry Alison as if he were an extortioner, whose word and honor were to be sold for dollars!
From A Hero of the Pen by Werner, E.
